Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity

In the summer of 2013, ASBMB and fifteen other scientific societies conducted a survey of scientists asking questions regarding cuts to nondefense discretionary spending by Congress since 2010. Over 3,700 scientists from all fields of research responded.

Unlimited
Potential, Vanishing Opportunity compiles the data from the survey into an easily understandable report that chronicles the difficulties of scientists trying to secure federal funds for research. The report clearly depicts the negative effects of these budget cuts
and sequestration on individual scientists and the entire scientific research community. Respondents’ concerns about federal budget cuts fell into four specific categories:

The
benefits of scientific research

The next
generation of scientists

The loss
of the federal investment in scientists

U.S.
global research leadership

We strongly urge the federal government to overturn
sequestration and return to a strong, sustained investment in scientific
research.